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Top 7 reasons for why Google Drive document sharing remains broken for so very long: 7 Google only thinks in terms of very large numbers, starting at a billion
by brent_noorda 13y ago
Top 7 reasons for why Google Drive document sharing remains broken for so very long:
7 Google only thinks in terms of very large numbers, starting at a billion. If you were to share a billion documents, and those billion documents appeared in everybody's folders, then (you must admit) that would be a bad user experience.
6 This feature is not part of Microsoft's or Facebook's or any hot-new-startup's core feature set, so there's no incentive to fix this.
5 Writely finished integration long ago. There's no one to do the work.
4 Google is a search company. The current mode encourages users to search for documents (in hopes they're there).
3 Fixing this feature would not increase ad revenue.
2 Google's tech support department left for a dental appointment six years ago, and she never came back.
1 Fixing this problem would not lead to more Google+ logins
Google's recommended workaround: If you want to share your document with your coworkers, and have them see it without searching, post the document on Google+
- robk 13y ago> 6 This feature is not part of Microsoft's or Facebook's or any hot-new-startup's core feature set, so there's no incentive to fix this. This seems the most relevant. Without a competitive angle, it's hard to see how this gets prioritized inside the company.